This project emerges through a foundational challenge: the construction of an algorithm capable of producing visual compositions that elude the synthetic geometrization commonly associated with computational aesthetics. The core intention was to explore whether a code-based system could create a visual language that conveys spontaneity and intensity, similar to what one might find in a human painter’s gesture.

The project draws strong inspiration from the Abstract Expressionist movement, and in particular from artists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline, and the remarkable way with which they managed to communicate powerful emotions using only color, texture, and movement, free from form, subject, perspective, or any representation of reality. Catharsis does not attempt to replicate their visual styles. Rather, it seeks to translate the emotional force and conceptual freedom of their practices into the logic of generative systems, to create, through code, images that resonate on an emotional and visceral level.

The collection consists of 999 artworks, each with a unique, individual title. These titles come from the 999 most influential jazz compositions, a genre that, much like this project, explores the tension between improvisation and structure. The titles are not merely nominal, they function as conceptual and emotional companions to the visuals, offering additional layers of meaning and fostering a more intimate relationship between each piece and its viewer.

One of the project’s most distinctive conceptual interventions lies in its algorithmic evolution. With each execution of the code, its visual language mutates, beginning with restrained, almost hesitant articulations, and as the series unfolds, the algorithm gains in intensity, applying color more aggressively, layering forms more densely, and introducing a sense of visual urgency. This evolution is not strictly linear, it flows in waves, with rises and falls in energy, giving the project a sense of organic, almost emotional development. Over time, new behaviors, visual anomalies, and rare features emerge, unexpected palettes, complex layering, and moments of expressive excess.

Another characteristic in Catharsis is its “long-structure”, where the paint on one artwork to extend and invade the next one and, as the rhythm continues, spreading from that artwork to the next and from there to the following one. This makes it possible to conceive Catharsis as an immense polyptych, in which each artwork found continuity with the previous and with the following one, allowing a very interesting collecting experience not yet enough explored to date in generative art.

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